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June 2010

The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here. Just as soc...

Facebook search will go live later today at bing.com/social and will include the full Facebook firehose complete with non-Pages content. Microsoft's search engine will combine both Facebook and Twitter results into one search experience. Results will...

Facebook now allows users to bulk import their e-mail address books so that they can invite non-Facebook friends to join in Facebook games and apps, including people who may not even have a Facebook account. Facebook's growth over the past couple yea...

Game maker Zynga just launched a new game called FrontierVille. Think FarmVille meets Oregon Trail and you'll get the idea. The game is already playable on Facebook today, and it adds some features that FarmVille doesn't have. You can control multipl...

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. The tensions between Apple and Google are on the rise after Apple made changes this week t...

Foursquare Co-Founder Dennis Crowley spoke about experimenting with badge rewards yesterday at the Mashable Media Summit, and today we learned that Bravo TV is one of the first big brands to test the idea with its Foursquare followers. The NBC-owned ...

Correction: We quoted the NYT as saying the @BPGlobalPR account had more than 150,000 followers. "Leroy Stick" contacted us and says that this is incorrect. The account never had that many followers, "but I predict we will be the end of the day," Sti...

In a move that seems like a challenge to Google's suite of web-based office tools, Microsoft is opening some of its Office programs -- including PowerPoint, Word and Excel -- to the web. Office Web Apps will allow for online document creation, editin...

We are very proud to announce Mashable's next New York City conference, Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit in Partnership with the United Nations Foundation. At the start of UN Week on Monday, September 20, 2010, Mashable will be hosting a half-day co...

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry's Joe, Ben & Jerry's new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here. Displaying your Twitter feed on your website is a wonderful way to show visitors real-time news and events...

This post is part of Mashable’s Internet Week New York Channel, which is presented by HP. Check out HP’s IWNY blog for additional coverage. Actor Edward Norton took the stage yesterday at Mashable Media Summit to introduce Crowdrise, a new platform t...

This post is part of Mashable’s Internet Week New York Channel, which is presented by HP. Check out HP’s IWNY blog for additional coverage. A big thank-you to everyone who came or watched the Livestream for the first ever Mashable Media Summit 2010 i...

Twitter is a mix of fail whale “over capacity” messages and significantly delayed timelines this morning, with the microblogging service experiencing a host of technical issues that are frustrating users. The timeline has been creeping further and fu...

Google is now allowing you to overlay photos from other users into Street View, giving you a new way to experience places near and far. With this new feature, you can view any available user-contributed photographs within the panorama of a Street Vie...

If you're so stoked about the upcoming World Cup that you've started having stress dreams about actually competing in it, you may want to check out the newest toy from JibJab: Soccer! Starring You! JibJab -- who also brought you Star Wars Starring Yo...

This post is part of Mashable’s Internet Week New York Channel, which is presented by HP. Check out HP’s IWNY blog for additional coverage. During an on-stage interview at yesterday’s Mashable Media Summit, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley revealed the ...

An apparent AT&T security breach has exposed the e-mail addresses of 114,000 iPad 3G subscribers, according to Gawker. A group known as Goatse Security (yes, named after the Internet shock site) sent the media blog a list of 114,067 e-mail entries of...

This post is part of Mashable’s Internet Week New York Channel, which is presented by HP. Check out HP’s IWNY blog for additional coverage. Mashable partnered with CNN on their first one-day conference in New York City yesterday: Mashable Media Summi...

Mashable’s Spark of Genius series is made possible by Microsoft Bizspark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: BarCards Quick Pitch: Bar...

If you're seeking a job in social media, we'd like to help out. For starters, Mashable's Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles ...

Last week, Google enabled an interesting feature: custom backgrounds for its search page. Now the feature is available internationally, and to highlight it, Google collaborated with several well-known artists who've created a gallery of background im...

Flickr has enabled a new way to share Flickr photos with your friends on Facebook: you can now connect your Flickr and Facebook accounts, and every time you upload a public photo or video, your Facebook account will be automatically updated as well. ...

Today Software-as-a-Service company Vocus is set to announce the acquisition of Help a Reporter Out for an undisclosed sum, with the aim of furthering both companies' missions of shifting control in the public relations cycle back to journalists. Fou...

Google is testing a new feature in Gmail, in which a phone icon opens a special Gmail chat window consisting of a dialpad, contact search, credit balance and a call button. The feature is not yet publicly available. A couple of weeks ago we asked whe...

This post is part of Mashable’s Internet Week New York Channel, which is presented by HP. Check out HP’s IWNY blog for additional coverage. In partnership with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners, PepsiCo has announced PepsiCo10, a new competition...

Cloud-based storage and collaboration platform Box.net is launching Box Sync for Business, a new tool that will make it easy for businesses and organizations to keep their files on the desktop always in line with files on the cloud. Think of it as Dr...

Brian Casel is a web designer and owner of ThemeJam WordPress Themes and CasJam Media. You can follow Brian on his blog at briancasel.com or on Twitter @CasJam. WordPress is the fastest growing CMS platforms in today's web design industry (yes, it's...

Real-time search outfit Collecta has just announced a $4.7 million Series B round of funding from Dace Ventures. Funding will be used to help grow the company's team, strike more content partnership deals, and increase the level of engagement and tim...

Twitter isn't the only venue for showing one's disdain for BP via parody -- YouTube users are uploading a steady stream of videos (some better than others) that use humor to express their anger at the disastrous situation. It's been more than a month...

Today at 11 a.m. PST, the FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert kicks off in Johannesburg, South Africa. If you're not able to be there in person, you can still catch the event -- featuring performances from the Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Jo...

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